Less tweets, more checks

When you deposit $1200 into the checking account of a person who is struggling to pay their bills and feed their family, a very interesting thing happens

Why Dave Portnoy Triggers Professional Traders: What Are Your Thoughts

Join Michael Batnick and Josh Brown for another round of What Are Your Thoughts, discussing all the biggest topics on The Street this week, including: Barry Ritholtz had Barstool founder and newly minted daytrading phenom Dave Portnoy on his podcast this week Public is the new Private – why companies are all of a sudden…

Whatever comes after Trump and Biden will be worse

What has developed is more like a K. On the upper arm of the K are well-educated and well-off people, businesses tied to the digital economy or supplying domestic necessities, and regions such as tech-forward Western cities. By and large, they are prospering. On the bottom arm are lower-wage workers with fewer credentials, old-line businesses…

This is what IPO Nirvana actually looks like

Thanks for listening to the new episode of my podcast over the weekend – I had on two experts in the IPO market to discuss what’s going on now and what is to come as we end 2020 with a record number of deals and dollars raised. If you missed it, my big takeaway is…

Asymmetry

Measures of volatility don’t always match up well with the direction of the stock market.